Walter Kalaidjian, Professor

Primary Office:Callaway N311 Office Hours: Office Phone:404-727-7992

At Emory Since:

Email:wkalaid@emory.edu

Degrees: B.A., Kenyon College Ph.D., University of Illinois

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Walter Kalaidjian (B.A. Kenyon College; Ph.D. University of Illinois) is Professor of English at Emory University. He has authored four books on 20th-Century American literature, and he is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to American Modernism and the Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry. His research and teaching focus on transnational modern and contemporary literature and culture specializing in poetics, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Andrew Mellon Foundation, Professor Kalaidjian in his forthcoming research explores textual linkages among globalization, terrorism, and extraordinary experience.

"'The Pardon of Speech': The Psychoanalysis of Modern American Poetry." TheOxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012: 425-460.